Sentences with phrase «keep the profits of»

Q: Is it ethical for a company to keep the profits of a product, which admittedly causes damage, while expecting society to pay for that damage?

Climate Accountability Letters and community - led lawsuits challenge the assumption that investors and corporations can keep the profits of fossil fuels separate from their costs.

Not exact matches

The retail store on the Lower East Side of New York City is not bringing in enough profit and Giordano doesn't have enough cash flow to keep it afloat.

Rather, the market is healthy, but not trending much.By scaling out, you can not only take some smaller profits, but achieve two other things: 1) keep some amount of that original position in case the market picks up again; and 2) reinvest a portion (or all) of your gains into another position (perhaps one with a little more volatility and / or opportunity).

Nor can the company really go flat out in public and admit that it's trying to dump the stock and lock in enormous profits without triggering yet another spin or two of the vortex that keeps sucking down Uber's stock price.

Competition for cash has returned with a vengeance, after the Fed stifled it in 2008 to keep the cost of funding for banks to near zero so that they could maximize their profits in order to rebuild their capital after teetering on the verge of collapse.

In other words, he claims that B of A can keep growing — and keep in mind that operating leverage should keep profits growing far faster than revenues — without without any boost from retained earnings.

Recent research from the DEA indicates that the cartels are now producing white - powder heroin from opium cultivated in Mexico, which could allow them to wrest control of the production process away from South Americans, target new customers, and keep more of the profits from heroin sales.

All profits are a result of creating and keeping a sufficient number of customers and serving them in a profitable manner.

Or say you just want employees to remember and keep on remembering the importance of preserving cash or boosting gross margins or maybe just recording a profit at the end of a month.

In addition to implementing profit sharing plans and encouraging stock ownership, Walton would set high goals for even his low level employees, encouraging competition at all levels to keep score on the progress of each individual.

As a result, many entrepreneurs find themselves in a race to the bottom, as they begin to focus on using revenues to keep up with expenses, instead of produce profits.

At a press conference this week, CEO Hisao Tanaka kept his head bowed for almost 30 seconds, an appropriate amount of time to express shame and contrition for overstating profits by $ 1.2 billion and misleading investors since 2008.

We asked some masters of cash flow from the PROFIT 500 — Canada's fastest - growing businesses — how they keep the money running:

These middle - man contracts keep the prices of the devices high, which is good for the manufacturers and the carriers because it means guaranteed profit margins for both.

The for - profit venture, led by Canadian CEO Jonah Brotman, keeps a portion of the margin (it buys at 30 % below retail and sells to vendors at 20 % below) and aims to generate more revenue through mobile phone ads.

If you can keep the purpose of your business at the forefront as you begin your undertaking, profits are likely to follow.

After all, the company has shown no signs of letting up and profits keep pouring in.

Morales himself, who until 1990 drew only enough money to keep his family clothed and fed, controls expenditures by paying employees a cut of profits on top of a base salary; barters for goods and services; and prepares Tomkats» advertising in - house to qualify for an agency's 15 % discount on media buys.

The designer chooses the selling price and keeps 100 percent of all profits.

This structural arrangement can thus produce tensions between stockholder and the corporation — stockholders either required to keep «investing» in a going concern indirectly by paying its taxes or, conversely, pressuring the corporation to distribute more of its profits and thus potentially slowing the company's growth.

President Donald Trump kept up his war of words with James Comey on Friday, calling the former FBI director's new book «third rate,» and suggesting it's unfair that Comey is profiting.

Couche - Tard, which keeps its books in U.S. dollars, reported a profit of US$ 146.4 million in its latest quarter, or 77 cents per diluted share for the 12 weeks ended April 28 compared with a profit of $ 117.8 million or 65 cents per share a year ago.

Cut taxes for businesses: If profitable operations are allowed to keep more of their profits, it will provide them an easily accessible source of capital.

If Udemy does the marketing and brings in the students, the instructor keeps 50 percent of the profits.

For many of the high - touch or creative businesses, the uniqueness that sets them apart is what keeps them from growing, reaching the next level or in some cases, even turning a profit.

Macy's comparable - store sales have fallen for seven straight quarters, and the company has turned to selling off real estate and consolidating as a way of keeping profits up.

But if this economic cycle indeed has another extended leg in — as plenty of indicators suggest — and companies can keep the profit machine running along with stock buybacks and mergers, there's no saying the market as a whole can't work its way a good deal higher before it reaches its ultimate peak.

But looking across the country, it's clear that self - interest — and the fear of lost profits — also fuels the effort to keep weed outlawed.

Here are some of the insights provided by the Profit 500 businesses on how they hire and keep the people necessary for a successful business.

As a service provider, Bechtel doesn't need to keep a big portion of its profits.

«He has established clearly that level of $ 32 million as a guarantee and remember: He will make much more after everything is counted because he keeps 90 percent of the profit from the event.

Smart machines will just be more of same, except that the owners of the machines will be directly profiting off the failure of human labor to keep up.

Companies that have adopted this have found that they are able to grant the request in the vast majority of cases, they have actually found that productivity has gone up, profits have gone up, staff morale has gone up and keeping staff is easier.

It usually requires an explanation on the order of infinite retention («yes, our sales and marketing costs are really high and our annual profit margins per user are thin, but we're going to keep the customer forever»), a massive reduction in costs («we're going to replace all our human labor with robots»), a claim that eventually the company can stop buying users («we acquire users for more than they're worth for now just to get the flywheel spinning»), or something even less plausible.

As a further example, if your business sells paintings, the profit margin calculation tells you on average, when a person pays for a painting, how much of that money you will keep in profit.

It is one of the defining factors in whether your SaaS company has a viable business model that can yield profits by keeping acquisition costs low as you scale.

But why wouldn't some firms end their programs and then poach the workers they need from their competitors who maintain the programs, giving workers a wage bump of 20 % of the training costs and keeping the 60 % after the 20 % cost of poaching workers as added profits.

If all participants were to believe the market is efficient, no one would seek extraordinary profits, which is the force that keeps the wheels of the market turning.

If you're a short to intermediate - term swing trader of stocks, keep reading for juicy details that will put you on the path to greater trading profits with less risk.

(Reuters)-- Shares of OnDeck Capital Inc (ONDK.N) soared on Tuesday after the online lender reported better - than - expected quarterly profit as it set aside less money for bad loans, and managed to keep costs lower.

Unique Operating Niche — Many times it is assumed that a company has a sure lock on future profits because of a patent that will keep its product unique.

Just thinking of all your marketing and business activities as falling in one of these three categories will help keep you focused and will quickly give you a boost in revenues and profits.

These companies get the best of both worlds, shifting business costs onto workers while keeping them financially tethered — and of course, reaping the profits.

Still, Sony appears to be playing it safe, keeping its full - year profit guidance of 500 billion yen, even though it lifted its sales forecast by 3.8 percent to 8.3 trillion yen.

They also have the facility sell the data for tokens and gain profit out of it or keep it to them if they wish to.

Of all the traders I know and have met, the one thing they always describe as their «secret weapon» and the reason for their success, is focusing on capital preservation; keep losses consistently below a certain dollar threshold and secure profits and let them run when you can.

Apple is one of several multinational giants that have kept a total of roughly $ 3 trillion in global profits off their domestic books to sidestep the previous 35 percent federal corporate tax rate.

But after recent U.S. reforms intended to keep profit at home, the two are reaching for the same slice of pie.

Bill Gurley compares Kalanick to Jeff Bezos, and it seems likely that Uber will follow a path similar to Amazon, relentlessly pushing to keep prices low while expanding — at the cost of short - term profits.